News and Views

I'm still feeling too full of Christmas spirit to focus much on this, but the news does go on, and if this stuff was happening in our neck of the woods we'd certainly be paying close attention:

Riots in Sidney Australia, Michelle Malkin has a mini round up of blog posts covering this.

Further updates on Katrina- surprisingly, the majority of the dead are not poor blacks. They are 'Forty-one percent are white, 8 percent unknown and 2 percent Hispanic.' Yes, that still leaves 48 percent of the dead being taken from the ranks of people of color. But considering that blacks made up 67 percent of the New Orleans population at the time of the storm, those are interesting figures, aren't they?
Obviously, those are more than figures. They are people, people who had dreams and hopes, lives to live, and individual personalities. Some of them had families. Every one is a soul gone on. It's a shame that there are those politicizing these deaths, and lying about who they are to do so.
From Michelle Malkin and Gateway Pundit.

Gateway Pundit also has some great photos of today's milestone event, the next round of voting in Iraq. My favorite is the dancing Iraqi soldiers.

The Iranian president stands by his anti-Israel remarks.

Israel stands by for the possibile necessity of a military strike in response to Iran's nuke building.

Stuff that makes you go, "Ew."

From Junkyard Blog: The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has approved a new law, providing monetary grants to the families of suicide bombers.

This is a few days old, but the story is continuous. The CIA is broken, and their poor showing on keeping track of Iran's Nuclear weapons is only one indication of their current state of malfunction.